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This report describes the results of research during the past nine
months on the project, “Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance.” The primary goal of this project is to investigate techniques
in artificial intelligence applied to the control of a mobile automaton
in a realistic environment. The main emphasis is on the design of a
hierarchy of computer programs that will accept visual and other sensory
information from the automaton and direct its actions toward the completion
of missions requiring the abilities to plan ahead and to learn from previous
experience.
The vehicle and special hardware (except for the visual preprocessor)
have all been completed and checked out. The preprocessor has been completed
and checkout is now beginning. A large body of software has been
written to control the vehicle , and preliminary experiments have been
conducted in which the computer has generated commands that the vehicle
has successfully executed.
Since the special hardware constructed for the project has been
described in detail in previous interim reports, the emphasis in this
report is on explaining the software being written to control the
automaton system.
Appendices are:
- “Mechanical Development of the Automaton Vehicle” by Vladimir Lieskovsky
- “Operational Features of the Automaton Console” by Elmer Shapiro
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